| Calais |
| The steamboat "Queen" leaving Calais, presumably for England - a postcard from 1918. |
| A 1926 postcard of the Boulevard Pasteur. (Z) |
| The Theatre and the Boulevard Gambetta. (Z) |
| Calais is a port in northern France, overlooking the Straits of Dover. For several hundred years it has been an important port because of its proximity to England, and is today heavily used by both business and pleasure traffic. |
| This postcard was mailed in 1919. (Z) |
| Another view of the Casino and Beach. (Z) |
| The market in front of the Town Hall. (Z) |
| A 1919 postcard of the Monument aux Enfants du Calaisis and the Boulevard Jacquard. (Z) |
| No date for this postcard of the Market in the Place d'Armes. |
| Another postcard showing the Place d'Armes. |
| The Gare Maritime. (Z) |
| Avenue de la Mer. |
| The Boulevards Pasteur and Jacquard. (Z) |
| The Hotel de Ville, built about 1885 - but see the postcard above for the "other" Town Hall. |
| The Theatre and Jacquard's monument. Calais owes much of its world wide renown in the lace industry to Joseph Jacquard(1752-1834), inventor of a mechanism consisting of a programmed reproduction of a perforated card which could transfer complicated designs to lace. A statue in memory of him, by the sculptor Marius Roussel, was erected in 1910. |
| Another excellent view of the Place d'Armes. (Z) |
| Another excellent view of the Casino and people on the beach. (Z) |
| Another postcard of the "Queen". |
| Postcards of the Past |
| The Rue de la Citadelle and the Belfry. (Z) |
| Le Quai de la Colonne. |
| The beach in the early years of the 20th Century - look at the Bathing Machines ! |
| The Rue Royale - a great postcard which was mailed in 1915. (Z) |
| Two old postcards of the Lighthouse. |
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| A great 1907 postcard of the Boulevard International. (Z) |
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| Fishermen repairing their nets. |
| An interesting postcard, although not a very good image. "Machinerie installee sur les falaises du Blanc-Nez pour le percement du Tunnel qui devait partir de cet endroit pour aboutir aux Cotes de Douvre (Angleterre - 1909." Roughly translated this says "Machinery installed on the cliffs of Blanc-Nez to dig a tunnel which should start from this place and come up in Dover (England)." |
| Did You Know......that on 6 April 1580, an earthquake was felt in Calais ? The tremors lasted for about 15 minutes, and damage was caused both by the quake and by a tidal wave which engulfed the town and surrounding countryside. Several people and many cattle were drowned. Part of the town wall and several houses collapsed, killing and injuring more people. It was reported that the watchtower split and fell, the keeper and his wife having to be rescued. The earthquake also struck Boulogne. |
| A couple of submarines in Calais harbour - no date for this one. (Z) |
| The New Bridge and the Casino. |
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| The South Side of the Station. |